I used to pretend that Kafka’s The Trial was my favorite book but these days I bring a courtroom stenographer with me

Love your enemy but do continue to hate your rival factions

The modernist thesis– You’ll know it when you see it The post—modernist antithesis— I can’t believe my own eyes Our current and nameless synthesis…

It was when Socrates ate the frui… that he added this second line of… I know that my wife knows everythi…

When Mao said “Everything under heaven is in utt… he went on to kill 60 million of h… When Xi Jinping said “Everything under surveillance is…

Exhausted by the pendulum swings b… feeling overwhelmed and disappoint… we’ve taken elements from Too much, too soon and

The difference between the Pax Romana and the Pax Americana is that while all roads lead to Rome

Whether it’s a brute fact Or a gift from God We are free Is this fair? It depends on

The American far left lacks a unifying Great Leader because as a cult of narcissists each disparate member belongs to their own

Let there be light blight and hindsight

All relationships but one Are located on a continuum From one pole of complete trust To the opposite pole of total fear The exception that proves the rule

Dreams don’t come true; They are true

For our civilization to function everyone must be willing to meet at the disappointed hour where if you’re not five minutes t… you’re early

Our central moral sentiment– that doing the right thing is its… hasn’t done us much good because through it we live in deni… that in this world

In the new version of socialism You can own as much property as yo… You just can’t own your mistakes